Composer, performer and multi-instrumentalist Doug Brown has appeared at major music festivals in North America and Europe including the Cork Jazz Festival (Ireland), the Zelt Musik Festival(Germany), the Winnipeg Folk Music Festival (Canada) and the Festival of American Music at the Barbican Centre in London, England.
He has performed with Barbara K and Pat MacDonald of Timbuk 3, “string-swing” group Harmonious Wail, songwriter Ken Lonnquist and many others. His compositions have been heard at regional theaters especially American Players Theater where he was a resident musician and composer throughout the 80’s and which in 1999 prominently featured his compositions for Pericles.
Lo Marie is a singer/songwriter from Madison, Wisconsin
Starting at age 5 with voice training and piano lessons, she has never looked back as she pursues new channels of musical expression.
Lo Marie earned a Bachelor of Music in Voice & Economics from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She started as an opera singer. Soon recognizing her true passion and affinity for jazz music, she began jazz guitar lessons with Jerry Kimbrough. Lo Marie studied under the great Billy Adair, director of jazz studies at Vanderbilt, and played in his professional big band, The Establishment.
